Let's continue yesterday's thread about interior design and fashion by looking at the June 1982 cover of architecture and interior design magazine Domus.
The cover represented a futuristic bedroom and featured a model reclining on the "Wink" chaise longue by Toshiyuki Kita for Cassina, while on the background you can spot Michele De Lucchi's "Dubbio Elettronico" ("Electronic Doubt") railing in his trademark black and white stripes and pastel shades.
In the photograph the model is wearing Cinzia Ruggeri's "Calura" ("Heatwave") design consisting in a bandeau bra and a mini-skirt made with a bright blue rubber water hose. While it would be fun to replicate this classic piece of surrealism by Ruggeri, it wouldn't certainly be functional to go around wrapped in a water hose.
Yet there could be a way to recreate it in a more modern way, while preserving its concept of fighting a heatwave with a refrigerated dress - using the technology behind the liquid-cooled garments of astronauts that integrate a network of tubes in which chilled water is pumped.
Maybe this could be a way to protect us from the global temperatures rising, proving that designs from the past can be used as inspirations to find solutions for the future, even for an apocalytic one.
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